Thursday, September 5, 2013

Le Logo Thingy

So, we're working on logos for fictional companies.  I can feel your excitement through the interwebz.

We had choices of a helicopter company, an eco-friendly water bottling company, a custom furniture company, and a bakery.  I chose the latter.

So, I tasked myself with creating a logo for Mama B's Bakery, a fictional company whom I knew nothing about.  All we had to go on was inferences we made from the name.

I decided that Mama B's Bakery should be a modern take on an ancient profession.  Instead of brick ovens and flour bags stacked in the corner, Mama B's Bakery would be a chic, stylish place, with a modern flair.

Simple, clean, and delicious.

So I made these:



Things didn't start off all clean and simple, though.  Originally, I was going to use the Pacifico font for the B in the circle, but it wasn't installed on the computer I'm using.  The chef's hat was going to be more elaborate, and the color scheme would have used pink, rather than the dark purple seen above.

Instead, I opted to create my own B using the pen tool, as well as the the simple, amorphous blog I call a chef's hat.

I like it, and I hope my fictional client would, too.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Le Portfolio Cover Thingy

So...

Portfolio thingies.  Yes.

We used InDesign, which is physically uncomfortable to use.  Finding basic functions is a chore, but that's kind of what I expect.  I was delightfully surprised to see how robust the buttons are, but was letdown by the SWF preview, which, if you can believe it, doesn't actually work properly.  You can't switch through the pages, so the only way to be absolutely certain that they work is to actually export it as a PDF.  Brilliant.

So.  InDesign Portfolio Cover Thingies.

I went for the clean, Android-esque button bar thingie meets Microsoft's new design language.  Yay.



Ain't it purty?

Thursday, August 22, 2013

I find your lack of potatoes... disturbing.



Potatoes are wonderful things.  Really, they are.  When you don't ruin them by means of deep-frying or other catastrophes, they're actually quite healthy.  Potatoes contain all the nutrients you need to survive, so why would you take that benefit away by frying it in grease?

I love you, potatoes.